Camp

Any temporary location for troops in campaign, where, under tents or improvised shelter, they may sojourn bivouac . Camps are also established to hold important military positions, and to invest or lay siege to a strongly defended work; e.g., at Petersburg, Va., 1864-65. The choice of location, form, arrangement, etc., are greatly influenced by the object of its establishment; and in time of war, owing to liability of attack by surprise, these must conform to tactical requirements for rapidity of formation and movement. a brief period; when without shelter they are